Improvement in feeding-doors for animaii-fens



inted tant @patent @titte Letters Patent No. 93,234,I dated August 3, 1869.

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IIVIPROVEMENT IN FEEDING-DOORS FOR ANIMAL-PENS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making peut of the saie Tou-hom it may concern Beit known that I, BENONI C. SCOTT, of Paxton, in the county of Ford, and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Feeding- Door for Animal-Pens; and I do declare that the following is a truc and accurate description thereof', refer ence being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, and being a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved pen, with the sides, covering, and floor removed. Y

Figure 2 is a cross-section of one of the feed-troughs and door, showing the operation of the door-spring.

Like letters referto like parts in each ligure.

The nature of lthis invention relates to an improved construction of pens for hogs, sheep, and cattle; and consists in providing suoli pens withVV a hanging door, over the feed-troughs, so arranged that when filling the troughs, said door w'ill be confined lto' the rear of said troughs, and prevent the animals ii'om crowding to the trough while being filled, which being done, the door is released, and swings forward, giving each animal in the pen an even chance to get his share of the food.

In the drawings- A represents the sills of a double hog-pen, with .a hall `between them, formed by the covering of the standards B and doors C, suspended, at their tops, between said standards.

D are feeding-troughs, situated undcrand in the rear of the lower edges of thedoois, when the latter' are hanging free.

E are spring-stops of elastic metal, secured at one end to the troughs, and project far enough into-the pen to hold the door away from the trough in fillinr it.

e is a stop, formed by turning up the front end of the spring, to prevent the door from being forced outward, and thus allow the animals to leave the pen.

The operation of the device is as follows:

The attendant wheels a barrow filled with-feed into the h'all, and throws the doors-G back from the troughs until the end of the'spring engages with the front side of the door, which is there held, preventing the animals from having access to the trough until it is filled, whiclrbeing completed, he presses the spring with his foot, releasing the door, which then falls forward by its own gravity, and permits all the animals in the pen to have simultaneous access to the contents of the trough. A modification of my feeding-door is equally adapted to feeding-racks for sheep and stalls for cattle.

What lI claim as'my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isl The feed-doors for ani mal-pens, above described',

consisting of the door O, suspended from its top, and

working in the frame B, and the spring'E, with its stop c, to regulate and control the movements ot'v said door, when used in connection with the troughs D and the pens A, as and for the purpose above set forth.

BENONI C. SCOTT.

Witnesses H. F. EBERTs, H. S. SPRAGUE. 

